Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
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- Synopsis
- Named a most anticipated book of Spring by Washington Post, Harper&’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Bustle, LitHub, Our Culture, Kirkus, AV Club and WNYCFrom Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop cultureWhat happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement&’s power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress.Sophie Gilbert identifies an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the energy of third-wave and &“riot grrrl&” feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Mining the darker side of nostalgia, Gilbert trains her keen analytic eye on the most revealing cultural objects of the era, across music, film, television, fashion, tabloid journalism, and more. What she recounts is harrowing, from the leering gaze of the paparazzi to the gleeful cruelty of early reality TV and a burgeoning internet culture vicious toward women in the spotlight and damaging for those who weren&’t. Gilbert tracks many of the period&’s dominant themes back to the rise of internet porn, which gained widespread influence as it began to pervade our collective consciousness.The result is a devastating portrait of a time when a distinctly American blend of excess, materialism, and power worship collided with the culture&’s reactionary, puritanical, and chauvinistic currents. Amid a collective reconsideration of the way women are treated in public, Girl on Girl is a blistering indictment of the matrix of misogyny that undergirded the cultural production of the early twenty-first century, and continues to shape our world today.
- Copyright:
- 2025
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 352 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593656303
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780593656297, 9780771010347, 9798217021376, 9798217021383
- Publisher:
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 04/29/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Sophie Gilbert
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.